I hadn't a clue what the waiter was on about. All Asian beer was tame, right! Not so, as I discovered the next morning. In the meantime we had a great night with Brian and Lorraine from Skib.
Rumble in the Jungle August 4th 2008 Hi All, Ah well our plan to venture as far as Laos is now in tatters. We just had too much of a good time in Chiang Mai and now can't really fit it in.
The plan was probably a bit too ambitious anyway as it was going to take a 2 day bus and boat journey to get to Laos. After our previous misadventure up the Mekong it was going to take a lot to convince us of the merits of going down the Mekong a ... read more
Asia » Thailand » North-West Thailand » Chiang Mai A unified Thai kingdom was established in the mid-14th century. Known as Siam until 1939, Thailand is the only Southeast Asian country never to have been taken over by a European power. A bloodless revolution in 1932 led to a constitutional monarchy.... ... read more
Maeve and I are embarking on a once in a lifetime trip around the world and you can join us on our trip, online of course, plenty of psychos out there you know. Both being Irish and from proper big Catholic families (7 Maeve and 8 John, as well as 6 neices and nephews between us) not to mention all the inlaws, outlaws, relations, friends, neighbours and all the rest, we decided a travel Blog is the best way to keep everybody up to speed and excrusiatingly jealous of our trip. We promise to try our best to keep ye up to date and informed on a regular basis with as many stories, pictures and ho... full info